Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Cherif Sahyoun

Michael Grass

Tobias Klinder

Eberhard Sebastian Hansis

Dirk Schaefer

Christian Haase

Bram Antonius Philomena Van Rens

Marco Verstege

Pieter Gerben Eshuis

Melike Bozkaya

Fransciscus Joannes Leonardus Everaerts

Imaging systems and methods are provided, which involve acquiring static volume data using a first imaging technique; segmenting the static volume data to generate a static segmentation; annotating the static segmentation with at least one annotation; acquiring initial dynamic volume data using a second imaging technique different to the first imaging technique; segmenting the initial dynamic volume data to generate a plurality of dynamic segmentations; comparing the static segmentation to each one of the plurality of dynamic segmentations and determining, using the comparisons, a single dynamic segmentation that most closely corresponds to the static segmentation; storing the corresponding single dynamic segmentation in the memory as a reference segmentation; acquiring subsequent dynamic volume data; segmenting the subsequent dynamic volume data to generate at least one subsequent dynamic segmentation; determining a difference between the reference segmentation and the subsequent dynamic segmentation; updating the at least one annotation using the determined difference; and displaying the at least one updated annotation together with the subsequent dynamic volume data.

Registration of static pre-procedural planning data to dynamic intra-procedural segmentation data

A medical imaging system with a screen, an X-ray imaging device having an X-ray interface and an intravascular data acquisition device having an intravascular interface provide enhanced X-ray images. For this purpose, the medical imaging system is adapted for overlaying an information set provided at the intravascular interface onto an X-ray image provided at the X-ray interface on user request for generating an enhanced X-ray image and for displaying the enhanced X-ray image on the screen.

Medical imaging system and method for providing an enhanced X-ray image

The invention relates to an apparatus configured to display an aortic valve image and an indicator when the aortic valve is in its open-state and/or when the valve is in its closed-state. The indicator is supposed to be in an overlay to the image of the aortic valve, such that a physician can see on the same display image the information needed to advance a guide wire or catheter through the aortic valve of a heart. This may prevent damaging ensures not to damage the aortic valve. The physician receives the relevant information, when the aortic valve is in its open-state and thus being in a state to be passed by the catheter. The information, whether the aortic valve is in its open-state or in its closed-state, corresponds to the systolic phase and the distal phase of the heart, respectively. The information, when the heart is in its systolic phase and when it is in the diastolic phase may be extracted from an ECG measurement. From the detection of these cardiac phases, the closed-state of the valve and/or the open-state of the valve can be estimated using general knowledge about flood flow during the cardiac cycle.

Signaling of an aortic valve state

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